The GSA Difference: LGBTQ and Ally Experiences in High Schools with and without Gay-Straight Alliances
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Abstract
We examine the lived experiences of high-school students who participatedin lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ)-centered activismof some kind, highlighting the promise of gay-straight alliance groups bycomparing the experiences of students at schools with gay-straightalliances (GSA schools) with the experiences of students at schools thatdid not have an LGBTQ-specific group (no-GSA schools). We compare studentsat GSA and no-GSA schools based on their experiences of harassment,experiences of support from authority figures, and patterns of friendships.We find that students at both types of schools experienced harassment andheard negative comments about lesbian and gay people. However, students atGSA schools reported more support from teachers and administrators thanstudents at no-GSA schools, who have stories of teachers and administratorsactively opposing equality for LGBTQ people. Students at GSA schoolsreported a wide variety of friendships across sexual identities, whilestudents at no-GSA schools felt more isolated and withdrawn. Thismuch-needed qualitative comparative analysis of students’ experiencesbrings a human face to the improved quality of life that schools withgay-straight alliances can bring to young people.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.016 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.012 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".